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...jaunty. Residents of Somerset still remember G.I.s tossing chocolate bars and gum out of passing trucks to goggle-eyed children. According to a popular gag, so much American chewing gum had been tossed in the fountains of London's Trafalgar Square that the pigeons there were laying rubber eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day: Overpaid, Oversexed, Over Here | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

...deal nearly so decisively with, say, the Hubert Humphrey test of presidential toughness. Humphrey once questioned whether Walter Mondale had the "fire in the belly" to run for President, a charge so serious that to meet it Mr. Mondale had to submit to a three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow. Mondale may have other political liabilities, but the absence of a burning belly is no longer one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Appeal of Ordeal | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...yesterday's contest, Harvard controlled the game from the outset but did not pull away for good until sophomore attackman Peter Follows scored with seconds remaining in the third quarter. Moving from behind the net, Follows burned a Minuteman defenseman and easily slipped the rubber past goalie Gerald Moreau for a 7-6 Crimson lead...

Author: By Mark Mead, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Tips Top-Ranked Minutemen; Bergman's 22 Saves Enliven Defense | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

...revolution every 6 min. Using a trunnion-pin attachment device (TPAD), a hollow canister-shaped mechanism strapped like a huge belly button to the chest of his suit, Nelson would gently bump the 5,000-lb. satellite's protruding trunnion pin (installed for just such a rescue). Three rubber-coated, spring-loaded jaws in Nelson's TPAD were supposed to snap like a mousetrap, firmly locking Max's trunnion into place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Capturing an Errant Satellite | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...scripts. Her chilly beauty aroused thoughts of ravishment, at least in the minds of directors, and for one torrid scene, in Soldier Blue, it was determined that she required larger breasts. To her amazement, she recalls, her thorax was coated with Vaseline, a cast was made, and a jumbo rubber bosom was prepared. Nude scenes embarrassed her, but she found herself wondering whether, with rubber breasts glued on, she would really be nude. Alas, the footage was not shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Charlie's Sister | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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